In a magnificent showcase of subjects and styles, the American Society of Marine Artists express their unique visions using watercolor, oil, pastel, acrylic and pen and ink, in 11 demonstrations and 15 mini-demos. Instructions for rendering a variety of nautical elements are featured, from painting dramatic cloud formations and colorful twilights, to depicting calm, wavy and rough water. The artists also reveal their secrets for painting ships, sailboats and other craft with attention to detail such as how to "settle" a boat into the water.This guide also illustrates the keys to capturing the textures of a variety of marine images, including translucent snails, weathered wooden boats, fine sand and sea shells. Additionally, these featured artists offer their valuable advice on gathering source material, painting on location, and choosing materials and tools.

Superlative full-color and black-and-white reproductions of artworks from collections all over the world capture a wide array of styles, subjects, techniques, and media in a close-up look at marine painting and its key artists, schools, and societies.

Here is the most comprehensive guide now available on the enormously popular subject of marine painting. Written by one of the most venerated seascape painters in America today, Painting Sea and Shore shows amateurs, students, teachers, and professionals how to paint every type of marine subject. Combining two earlier works by Harry R. Ballinger - Painting Boats and Harbors and Painting Surf and Sea - this new, augmented edition literally is two books in one. Separate chapters are devoted to subjects such as materials and tools; composition; perspective; colors; wave action; skies; planning and executing seascapes; rocky shores; sandy beaches; open sea; boats; harbors; planning and executing harbor paintings; daytime and nighttime subjects; ships at sea and along the coast; painting on the spot; painting in the studio; and practice subjects for the reader. In a series of painting demonstrations, Mr. Ballinger reveals how the marine painter can master the sea and shore, in all its rich variety, in oils. Outstanding examples of the author's work appear throughout the book in color and halftone. This rich pictorial content will appeal to the author's countless admirers, who will want to own a gallery of his work. -- from dust jacket.

Painters of every caliber can create realistic seascapes with this profusely illustrated, easy-to-follow guide. Written by an award-winning artist and teacher, the book combines the basics of composition and color mixing with simple methods for painting surf, sea, skies, sand, waves, and rocky shores. 12 color and 85 black-and-white illustrations.

Boats and coastal scenery have always inspired artists. This book celebrates that inspiration and explains many aspects of painting the coast, from creeks and tidal rivers to bustling beach scenes, boats and harbours, with a strong emphasis on capturing light, mood and atmosphere.

Marine Painting in Watercolor explains how to render sky, clouds, and the intricate landscape of the shoreline, with its plants and animals and its wharves, boathouses, and other man-made structures; the reader learns how to paint boats, ships, and people of the sea and waterways, as well as still lifes composed of marine items. A supplemental chapter discusses matting and framing watercolors and the various types of exhibitions open to the watercolorist.

Artists who love the sea and dream of capturing every aspect of its beauty will treasure this lavishly illustrated guide to painting boats and picturesque harbors. With advice on technique, color, and composition, Ballinger begins with numerous seaworthy vessels and moves on to cover calm and stormy waters, sea birds, the sky, and more. 8-page color insert.